Fanon : the postcolonial imagination / Nigel C. Gibson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibson, Nigel C.

Series:

Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)

Key contemporary thinkers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.

Fanon, Frantz.

Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961--Political and social views.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Racism.

Political and social views.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 252 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. : Polity Press ; Malden, MA : Distributed in the USA by Blackwell Pub., 2003.

Summary:

Frantz Fanon, French psychiatrist turned Algerian revolutionary, was one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the post-war period. Fanon was a radical thinker who left a legacy of highly original theories on race, revolution, violence, and other major political themes. This introduction to the ideas and legacy of Fanon portrays him as a truly complex character in the context of his time and beyond. The book argues that for Fanon, theory had a practical task: to change the world. Thus his "untidy dialectic" is a philosophy of liberation that includes cultural and historical issues and visions of a future society. In a profoundly political sense, the book asks us to re-evaluate Fanon's contribution as a critic of modernity and to reassess our notions of consciousness, humanism, and revolution. Engaging and accessible, this book will appeal to readers of literary theory, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, and social and political theory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-241) and index.

ISBN:

0745622607

0745622615

OCLC:

50598163